Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-11-01
A BIG SALE.
THE OLD FAIR GROUNDS GOES UNDER THE
HAMMER AT LAST.
A Large Attendance Of Bidders at the Court House
The Job an An-Day 0ns-A Total Of
Over $4,000 Realized.

A good deal of unimproved real estate
was dumped on the local market yesterday
and was very promptly gObbled up at good
average figures. This land comprised
what was known as the Old Fair Grounds,
and the sale was at auction, in compliance
with decree made by the Circuit Court at
the June, 1887, term. The matter Of the
disposition of the property was placed by
the Court in the hands of Messrs. Geo. B.
Caldwell and William Erskine, as Special
Commissioners, and the ground was laid
of into streets and alleys, the Commission
ers, by the terms of the decree, being al
lowed the option of selling as a whole, by
blocks or by single lots, or partly by
blocks and partly by single lots, as might
be deemed most advantageous to the own
ers The plat of the land, made by the
Commissioners, divided it into seven
blocks, no two of which were
of anything like the same size or shape,
or contained the same number of lots.
Blocks one, five, six and seven occupied
the south half of the territory to be sold,
while blocks two, three and four took the
northern half of the grounds. the dividing
line thus made being formed by The exten'
sion westward of Indiana street, which
was carried clear through the property to
Back" river. Two streets were carried
through the land north and south, the one
on the east beinga continuation of Wabash
staeet, and the one on the West new
street called Erie. The entire property is
bounded on the north by the extension oil
New Jersey street The tract contained
| twenty-five acres and fraction.
At about half past nine O'Clock yester-
day morning Auctioneer J. c. Hervey
started the sale by offering the property as
whole, about fifty bidders being present,
1t was understood that the bids were to
stand merely as offers, and that there
would be no knock. down sale until the
property had been offered in each several
way, and the Commissioners had deter
mined which was the most advantageous.
There were,few people who desired the en-
tire property. A little syndicate, com
posed of Messrs f. w. Oglebay, Jacob
Hornbro0k and s. J. Boyd, bid $40, 900,
but this figure could not be passed, and
the Commissioners tried it by blocks, with
the following result:
On block No. /, Geo. Lemons bid 81 500,
On block No. >, Capt. John BaggS bid
$4,000.
On block No. 3, G. O. Smith bid -, 900.
On block No. 4, n Kuhn hid 81 800.
On block No. 5, Geo IT, Boyd bid 81, 700,
On block No. &, Geo. Lemons bid 81, $50.
On block No. :, NJ. Pollock bid $3.50.
These sums made total of SIS, 300.
Then NJ. Pollock put in a bid OF ~, 700,
| for blocks . and 6 together, and this way
the total was $lS, $50.
This was unsatisfactory, and it was an
nounced that offers would be received by
| lots. The auctioneer started with block
No. /, and by the time the thirtytOur lots
contained in il had been cried it was noon,
| and a recess was taken until two o'clock.
AT that hour the crying of the property by
| lots was resumed, and continued until
about halEpaSt four. At that time it was
apparent that blocks Nos. l, = and ) could
be most advantageously sold by separate
lots, while the offers for blocks 4, > 6 and
! in bulk were the best. This determined
the manner Of sale, and about i've O'Clock
the actual selling of the property began.
The purchasers, with the number and
location of the lots bought and the price
paid, will he found below: